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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

YESTERDAY was charming spring day,
bright and pleasant, with warm sunshine
that was ali the more welcome because it
had been 40 long away. The ground was
dry enough for walking, birds chirped and
the frogs croaked and everything assumed a
spring appearance Asit was Palm Sunday,
that ushers in Hol7 Week, the morning at
tendance st the churches was very large.
Ia the afternoon nearly everybody was out
Tor walk, and an extended one generally
produced slight perspiration. There were
more strangers in the city than on any Sun
day this year, while the numbers of our own
people of both sexes which appeared on the
streets were noticeable.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

CHURCH SERvICEs.-During Holy Week
church services will be held as follows:
Grace church-Monday and Saturday at .
p. m, and Tuesday, Wednesday and Fri
day at S p. m.
Christ church Tuesday and Thursday at
S p. NJ, and Friday at II a. m:
st. Paul's Wednesday and Fri
day at 5 p. m.
St. Mary's church Thursday at s a. a.,
Friday at a. M and 7:30 p. IN, and Sat
uriaY at a. m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

CHICAGO, April Ill a. m.-Msy Wheat open
ed 15c higher at $3.50 with free trading; thon fell
off to 1914 and is now quoted at S21h. May
Corn 80 y. May Oats 269s. May Lard ST 80.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

APPoINTMENr.-At the request of the
members of the bar of this city, Judge
James Keith of the Circuit Court, has ap-
pointed Mr.. r. A. Sinclair a commissioner
in chancety for this city and county, in
place of Mr.. K. Kemper, resigned, and has
designated him as a commissioner of &C
counts
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

PROPERTY SALE-Messrs Harlow s.
Cation, real estate agents. have sold to
Messrs. Harlow & Bros., for $50, the lot
and frame dwelling st the southwest corner
of Royal and Queen streets.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

DEATH OF MR. G. w. WATrLEs Mr.
Charles William Wattles died at bis home
10 tais city Saturday evening aged about GA
Yeas. He had been sufferer from govt for
number of years but was confined to his
bous; for low weeks ouly Mr.. Watties,
at the time OF his DEATH was the oldest local
practitioner at the Bar hers and was looked
npon as safe aud wise counsellor. At the
commencement of the war he was second
lieutenant in Company G, Emmett Guard,
18th Virginia Regiment, and later entered
the war department of the Confederate gov
eminent in Richmond. After the war lie
returned to this city and associated himself
10 the practice Of law with the late Col. Geo.
w. Brent. Later he was the senior partner in
the law firm of Watt!es Il Mushbach but
more recently practiced his profession alone.
A meeting of the bar of the city will be held
at the Office of Mr.. Leonard Marbury this
evening to take suitable action regarding
the death Of Mr.. Wattles.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

POLICE REpoRT.-Last night was clear
and mild with two prisoners and three lodg-
ers at the station house.
The Mayor this morning disposed of the
following cases
John Penn, arrested by officer TIGER for
being drunk and disorderly, was released.
A white man, arrested by officers Davis
and Grady for being drunk on the streets,
was dismissed.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

HAY FEVER is type of catarrb, having pecn-
liar symptoms. It is attended by an inii imed
condition of the lining membrane of the nostri 5,
tear-ducts and throat aft citing the lungs An
panied with a burning sensation. There Sc
we're spasms of snoezing frequent attacks of head
ache. watery and infsmed eyes. Ely's Cream
Balm is a remedy that can be depended upol. soc
at druggists; by mail, registered, Coo
Ely BROTHERS, Druggists, Owego, N Y.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

AMATEUR OARsMEN. annual con-
yention of the Virginia Association of Anna.
teur Oarsmen was held in Richmond on
Saturday night, A. K Philips, jr., OF Fred
ericksburg, chairman, and A L. Blair, of
Richmond, secretary. The following repre-.
sentatives of the various clubs of the State
were present: J. K. NJ. Norton. of the Old
Dominion Club, Alexandria; II. II. John
ston, of the Rappahannock Club, Fredericks.
burg; E. Osborne McCabe, of the Univer-
sity School Club, Petersburg; and Randolph
Peyton, ofthe Virginia Boat Club, Richmond.
1t was decided that the next annual regatta
should be held at Alexandra, on the 4th of
July next. The officers were elected for
the ensuing year, as follows Francis Hufty,
of Alexandra, president; William S. White,
of Fredericksburg, Secretary J. G. Csrroll,
of Norfolk, treasurer. II is expected that
the Analostans; the Coum5as and Poto-
macs, Of Washington AID L'hirondelles
and Undines, of Baltimore. will take part in
the next regatta.
A meeting Of the Old Dominion Boat cub
will be held on Wednesday night uext, aud
t is Snii that the club will al once commend 9
making preparations FOR The regatta.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

New YORK, April 4.-Cotton dull; uplands
1O3s Orleans 10 1916; futures ateadier. Flour
quiet and unchanged. Wheat lower. Corn easier.
Pork steady at $16 25. Lard dull at 81 57h.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

The BAPTIST CHURCH-Last night, at
the Baptist Church, at the close of the SER
mon, Mr.. Mercer gave an invitation to any
who desired it to come forward and confess
Christ; and in response thereto seven per.
sons came forward and acknowledged him
as their Saviour. Last Wednesday even
ing six persons were received for baptism
and membership in the church. The ser
vices next Wednesday evening will be held
10 the main audience room of the church
and will be especially for the unconverted.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-04

re CONFEDERATE vETERANs-The regular
monthly meeting of r. E. Lee Camp, Confederate
4th, at 730 clock, at the Columbia engine house.
app 2t EDGAR WAKEFIELD, Adjutant.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07
HOW PROTECTION AFFECTS THE
FARMER.

Mr.. j. S. Moore has written the
following to the New York Times
about the organized army of protec-
ton" and the poor farmer mob oil
consumers"
Of all the poor, deluded, tariff
riden mob of consumers no one makes
a more pitiable show than does the
farmer of the United States. To
him organized protection is the
daughter of the horse leech, and he
has to "give." give" "give" from
the moment he gets up in the morn
ing, when he washes his hands with
taxed soap until he goes to bed with
a taxed 'night-cap," if he still wears
one. From the cradle to the grave
he is taxed without any mitigation.
To him protection of home industry
is simply to give and not to receive.
What a swindle it is, for instance, to
put a duty on wheat, when all the
wheat we imported during 1886 was
$50, $40 bushels, while our exports
of wheat during the same year were
57,759, 209 bushels, besides 5000
900 barrels of -four. The farmer,
serf to the organized army of pro
lection. is not benefited one cent by
the protection of wheat. He gets in
New York the price, less freight and
charges, that the wheat sells for in
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07
THE GROWTH OF MoNoPoLIES
n. Y. World.

A "Salt Trust" is the latest addi
t,on to the list of monopolies. 1t is
to be composed of sixtythree com
panies, and its avowed object is "mu-
tual protection and to keep up
prices"
And so the folds Of the monopolis-
tic anacondas tighten about the peo-
pie The production and the price
of the meat upon the poor mans ia
BILE; of the coal with which it is cook
ed and the salt with which it is sea-
soned; of the oil that supplies him
with light by night and the glass
that admits the sunshine by day,
and of many other necessities, are
now fixed by pool or trust"
The object of all these combina-
tons is toput an artificial and arbi-
trary price upon some article of uni
versal use by destroying or suspend
ing competition Their effect is to
increase the cost of living for all the
people, limit the choice of avocations
and the field of enterprise for indi-
viduals, and to enrich beyond reason
able measure Il small band of con-
spirators.
Compared with the Importance of
forbidding the formation of these ir-
responsible trusts" out of response
HE corporations and Of checking the
growth of monopolies and of the
money power, how insignificant are
the sham battles of politicians over
the offices how worse than QuiX-
otto seem the efforts of hobby riders
to abolish poverty by shifting taxes
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

4 conclusive argument against
the proposition that the combina-
ton Of the coal mining and coal car
rying companies is calculated to pro-
mote the public interest is furnished
in the fact that coal has grown
dearer under the policy of combina-
ton. Thirty years ago anthracite
coal was sold in Philadelphia cheap
er than it is now. Under the oper-
alton of the ordinary laws Of trade
the reverse should be true. The
cost of mining coal has not increas-
ed. The facilities of transportation
have been quadrupled. Other sta
pie products, like grain, cotton, oil,
ore and metals, are carried for thou
sands of miles a: largely reduced
rates. Anthracite coal is the single
exception to this economic progress.
Consumers have not been benefited
by chcapened methods of handling
and carriage. The area of anthra-
cite production being limited, there
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

A writer in the Philadelphia Rec
ord says: Consider if our postal
service were controlled by Jay
Gould and others like him what we
might have to pay for carrying a let
ter from here to San Francisco.
Franklin B. Gowen sometime ago
stated that it cost 70 cents per ton
to mine coal and 90 cents per ton to
land it at Port Richmond. That is
total of 80 cents. How is it that
we have to- pay $5.75 and Sc u ton
for it ?
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

Ex-CoNGREssMAN WALSH, of Cum
berland, addressed q meeting Of the
Knights of Labor in that city sever
al months ago and the following ex-
tract from a report of his speech is
of interest:
"These labor questions interested
all who are not of the organized cap
italistic class. l consider all to be
laboring men who are engaged in
any calling for the welfare of men
and development of society. + + +
You have colossal organizations of
capital; your small establishments
have been wiped out, and there is
nothing but capital on one side and
labor on the other. An impossible
gulf has been created, and is being
widened by the existing state OF af-
fairs. The forces of society have
been divorced and separated, and it
is impossible to maintain the gov
eminent if this continues. The la
borer must have a share in the
wealth he creates. There is now no
chance of his doing this"
The speaker drew a graphic pict
ure of railroads can combine to fix
freights where they please, with no
power to hinder them. The few
men representing the corporation will
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07
THE FORAKER INCIDENT.

The Foraker incident ut Phila-
delphia need not worry Mr. Cleve-
land. The hand of Douglas is his
own and whether or not Mrs.
Cleveland refused to shake hands
with Gov. Foraker, who went over
to Philadelphia fresh from Wheeling
and his savage assault on her hus-
band, or whether the story was eX.
aggerated-it matters not n patti
Gle. Here is Gov. Foraker going up
and down the country on scurril-
lous crusade, calling Mr.. Cleveland
"a dog" and one of his intimate
friends IAN internal whelP," and
then making 4 pOther because the
high-spirited wife of the President
won't shake hands with him.
When General Jackson was run
ming for President, Hon. Jas. Arm
strong, his old Tennessee enemy,
published broadcast a manifesto to
show Jackson's unlitness for the Of
flee, charging him with having been
bully and bruiser all his life. In
proof of this, he mentioned fifty-odd
fist fights and scrimmageS, more or
less, Sanguinary with knife and pis-
tol, in which Jackson had figured.
The politicians were frightened
nearly to death, fearing a loss of
votes, Not so, Old Hickory. He
had no sooner read the account than
he sent word to Armstrong that he
meant to eudgel him on sight, and
very likely he kept his promise
No matter what my Lord Chester
field may say about it, your true
hero or heroine, General Jackson or
Mrs. Cleveland, is apt to show a lit
tie human nature on manifest ocoa-
sion.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

Canon Wilberforce in one of his
recent addresses pointed out that
while our tax on spirits and beer
yields an annual revenue of $751;
100000 the tax in Great Britain and
Ireland, which have only half the
population of the United States,
amounts to $195,O0O,00O. The En-
glish House of Lords, he charged,
lis filed with those who have
amassed fortunes by the manutac-
ture and sale of beer" The fortunes
amassed in the upper house of Con.
gress have usually sprung from the
safe and profitable accumulation of
retainers from railroad corporations.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

When the decision of an inferior
Court is appealed from it is, under
the New York law, the duty of a
Judge of the Court of Appeals to
stay execution, pending the appeal if
he believes there's reasonable doubt
as to she correctness of the iudg-
meut appealed from. a jury found
Sharpe guilty of bribing the Alder
men. During the trial the Judge
decided certain questions of law
against the prisoner. Sharpe'S law
yers think the Judge made a mis-
take; they think he should have de-
cided differently; and if these law
vers are right, then the prisoner is
entitled to new trial. On proper
application and, in obedience to his
duty, Judge Reeger certified, that,
having examined the record, he en-
tertains q doubt whether there is err
ror and. entertaining such doubt,
he gives an order to stay the remov-
al OF Sharpe to the penitentiary, un
til the appeal can be heard and de
cided. Thereupon the New York
papers, notably the " orld, raise a
great cutlery and by violent denun-
citation infame the thoughsless part
of the community against Judge,
who has simply done his duty.
These newspapers increase their
sales by creating excitement, but
conduct like their present conduct
entirely destroys the little influence
they are supposed, in some quarters,
to possess. The thoughtful part of
the community are delighted that
Judge Rceger disregards newspaper
clamor
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07


Every American is for ''the pros
perity of home industries" of"Amer-
lean markets and of the products
of American labor and capital"
But unnecessary taxation is, in the
words of the Democratic national
platform of 1876, unjust taxation"
and no taxation can of itself enrich
the man or woman who is taxed.
Why, then, do any Republicans re-
sist the reduction Of federal taxation
on the necessaries of life?-N. Y.
Star.
They resist reduction the tar
iff because they expect to prevent in
telligent voting.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07
THE PRICE RAISED.
Extract from Frank Hurd's speech.
Suppose Congress enacts:

Extract from Frank Hurd's speech.
Suppose Congress enacts:
A tax of. 500 shall be collected on
every hogshead of foreign sugar.
The importer of the foreign hogs
head of sugar would be compelled
to put one hundred dollars in the
treasury of the United States, and
the man buying it would have to
pay two hundred dollars. Do you
suppose the American producer will
leave his sugar at the same old
price? He will increase the price
of his sugar up to $3.50 or $l95-
just under that of the foreign pro-
Queer. He has increased the price
of the foreign article to the full ex-
tent Of the duty, in order to increase
the price of his own article nearly
up to that price. don't want you
ever to forget this proposition-the
whole protective tariff system has
its foundation in increase Of price,
which is the strength of its super
structure, the keystone Of its arch.
the soul, the life, the breath of its
being. Take it away, anu hose who
advocate it will be looking out for
their own affairs, instead of looking
to the government for help like in
fants.
Who pays this increase of price?
The consumers of this country-the
men who are obliged by the necessi-
ties of life to purchase articles for
their households, to maintain their
existence, to hide their nakedness.
All men are producers equally, they
say, but all men are not protected
equally. All men are consumers,
and as consumer no man receives
protection. l ask why should any
man receive the government aid
more than any other? Whose gov
eminent is it? The common govern
ment of us all. A protection, my
friends, which makes law TO pro-
tect us all equally is no protection
at all; for if we are in precisely the
same relative state as before, it is
as though every one of us should be
lifted up from the ground six feet
on stills. And if protection protects
unequally, then some man is having
the advantage of some other man.
think it is not in the power OF the
United States to give this adyant-
age. If a business is profitable it
does not need protection; ifit is not
profitable men should keep their
money out it. There is no reason
why a man should take money from
US to make good his losses in bu-
siness in which he has voluntarily
gone. No one compelled him to 90
into this business: he did it volun-
tarily.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

A resident in New York, who is
thoroughly conversant with the
scheme of newspaper management
in that city, Glanced to read the
last issue of this paper; he called
the attention of an acquaintance to
the editorial, ION a millionaire GOV
erning class" and remarked
These are exactly the sentiments of
nine in ten, and yet l do not believe
either Of our leading papers would
publish what is here said for q
thousand dollars
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

London. For instance, see that
American wheat on the 10Th of April
was selling in London for Is. I'd. per
100 pounds, which is as near as pos
sible $1.03 for bushel of 60 pounds.
The price in New York was SO cts,
leaving 10 cents bushel for freight
and charges and profit to London.
Now, as the farmer in the United
States only gets the London price,
less charges, for his wheat, which is
90 cents net, let me SHOW how much
granulated sugar 10 bushels OF
wheat will buy in London and how
much it will buy in New York. The
price for graduated sugar in Lon
don is les per hundredweight, or
for liz pounds, which is as near as
possible 81 cents per pound. The
price for the same kind of sugar in
New York at wholesale is 81 cents
per pound.
With these facts before us we find
that ten bushels of wheat at SO cts.
in New York, or $3.50, will buy
littlerless than 162 pounds OF gran
ulated sugar at 81 cents per pound.
The same ten bushels of wheat at 10
cents net in London. or $3.50, will
buy as near as possible 1861 pounds
of graduated sugar at 81 cents per
pound. In other words, when the
American farmer wants to turn ten
bushels of his wheat into sugar in
London he gets 1854 pounds, and if
he wants to do the same thing in
New York he gets only 1872 pounds,
or 103 pounds less.
In 1886 we exported 63,655, 433
bushels of Indian corn. The price
of corn in London is at present 20s.
per $50 pounds, or, as near as pos
sible, | cent per pound. Now, q
bushel of corn weighing 80 pounds
is selling for Al cents in New York.
That q cents that it is selling more
for in London is tor freight, etc.
Anyhow the farmer does not get any
more for his corn in New York than
in London, less expenses. Well,
then, ten bushels of coin in New
York at All cents, or $4.75 if con-
verified into granulated sugar at 81
cents per pound, will buy, as rearas
possible, S2S pounds of sugar in
New York.
On the other hand, 10 bushels OF
corn, the net price of which, less
charges, is $4.75 in London, if con
verified into graduated sugar at b
cents per pound, will buy fraction
over 1853 pounds, or 53 pounds
more in London than in New York.
With these little statistics as a
mere beginning | will leave my fel-
low mobsmen consumers, namely.
the farmers, to reflect on the army
organization of protection. But l
promise to show the tyranny and
swindle up ad infinitum.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07

has been an attempt to corner the
market for it. The great carrying
companies have become possessed
of the bulk of the coal lands, and
have conspired to fleece their Gus
toners. This is the case in nut
shell. The comparative cost of nm
cornered' and ''cornered" coal is il
Illustrated in the low pricess at which
bituminous coal is laid down at the
seaside, though carried for longer
distances than anthracite-Phildd.
Record.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-07
THE MARYLAND KIcKERs.

The rebellion in Baltimore against
the machine methods of the German
Ring teaches a lesson we trust viii
be needed. Wallis, Marshall, Brown,
Cowen and others of the most trust
ed Democrats in Maryland have de-
clared that, in their judgment, the
State will fare better in the hands of
the more respectable and patriotic
Republicans, than in the hands Of
the Democratic machine. On last
Friday night a mass-meeting ofDem-
ocrats was held in Baltimore, which
in point of numbers and respectable
ity equaIled any assemblage in that
city since the war, and this meeting
adopted an address explaining and
indicating the course of those who
s'feel the hoof of an unclean beast
upon their necks, which they must
throw off though they die" Some
extracts from this address are given
elsewhere, and, however much the
newspapers may attempt to disguise
the fact. it truly reflects the sober
Judgment of the rank and file of vo-
tiers. The independent movement in
Maryland is in no sense an abandon
ment of Democratic doctrine; it is
rebellion against machine methods
that are fatal to Democratic ideas;
it is rebellion against the rule of men
who mistake bossism for leadership
and buying votes for State-craft. We
have long foreseen the condition that
now prevails in the Democratic cities
of Baltimore and New York; in one,
the revolt manifests itself in the re-
markable spectacle of true Demo
Gratis, like Wallis, voting for Re-
publican nominee; in the other, the
revolt manifests itselfin the George
movement. What we now see in
Maryland and New York will surely
occur in other States unless our par
ty discards the present school of pol
iticians who lack sincerity, courage
and conviction.
W. World has this comment:
The revolt is occasioned by the
ascendancy of Gormanism and Hig-
ginsism in Federal affairs, and by
the rings, rufiianism and rascality
of the local Government of Baltimore.
The Federal offices, are given over
to spoilsmen, and the State and city
offices to ballot-box suffers, thugs
and murderers. That there should
be refusal on the part of honest
Democrats to sustain such com
bination is not remarkable; but is
it not extraordinary that in the only
State where this issue is sharply
drawn in the elections of the present
year-a State, too, that is almost
within sight of the White House,
President who was elected as re-
former, and who still talks reform,
should be on the side Of the rings,
the thieves and the criminals? This
"entangling alliance" is causing a
great deal Of uneasiness, not to say
q stronger feeling, among the refor-
merS in other States than Maryland.
1t cannot be broken too soon for the
Presidents good.